The Ventimiglia family was an old Italian noble family of Liguria.[1] Descendants of the family held positions and titles of nobility in Sicily in Mediaeval times and later.[2]
Giovanni II Ventimiglia, marquis of Geraci (1559–1619), lord of Castelbuono, Gangi, Pollina, Pettineo and San Mauro, was acting Viceroy of Sicily from 1595 to 1598.[4]
Salvatore Ventimiglia (d. Palermo, April 1797), Bishop of Catania, son of the 3rd Princes of Belmonte
^Pietro Corrao (2020). Ventimiglia (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 98. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed September 2022.
^Ventimìglia (in Italian). Enciclopedia on line (in Italian). Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2019.
^Maria Antonietta Russo, Giovanni I Ventimiglia: un uomo al servizio della monarchia, "Archivio Storico Siciliano", s. 4., 34-35 (2008-2009), p. 43-93.
^Grazia Fallico (2000). Geraci, Giovanni Ventimiglia, marchese di (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 53. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2019.
^The History of the Col de Tenda, W.A.B. Coolidge, The English Historical Review, Vol. XXXI, ed. Reginald Lane Poole, (Longmans, Green and Co., 1916), 202.
Further reading
"Histoire généalogique de la maison de Vintimille" (in French).